Research Grant for Authors

Education, History, Project Support, Research

Apply for a grant to support historical research on a topic related to Iowa history. Each year, up to 10 research stipends will be awarded to support research related to the history of Iowa or Iowa and the Midwest. Preference is given to proposals that pursue neglected topics or new approaches to more familiar topics.

Grant recipients will produce an annotated manuscript to be considered for publication in the Annals of Iowa, a scholarly journal published quarterly by the State Historical Society of Iowa.

Who: Eligible applications include academic and public historians, graduate students, and independent researchers and writers
What: $1,500
Application Deadline: April 15, 2024, for funding period of July 1, 2024 to September 1, 2025

How to Apply

Read the guidelines.
Apply by April 15, 2024.

Applications are welcomed from U.S. and international applicants. International applicants must possess either a valid Social Security Number or an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN).

Explore the Work of Past and Current Grant Recipients

Research Grants for Authors recipients have contributed more than 100 articles to the Annals of Iowa and are frequent contributors to programs throughout the State Historical Society of Iowa. Read articles by grant recipients or find upcoming or past programs that draw on research ranging from Indigenous Iowa to the 1980s Farm Crisis.

Grant Awards History

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Project Title	Applicant	City	Fiscal year	Grant Amount
Veterans on the Land: Agriculture, Masculine Work, and the Disabled Veterans of the Great War in Iowa	Evan P. Sullivan	Latham, NY	2019	$1,000.00
Heartland Stories: Rural Iowa Ethnic Churches, 1945–1975	David E. Zwart	Allendale, MI	2017	$1,000.00
For the Common Good of All': the Iowa Suffrage Referendum of 1916 and the Fight for its Passage	Tracie Grube-Gaurkee		2022	$1,000.00
"I Felt if Things Didn't Change, the World Would Come to an End": Black Iowa Women's Activism During the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1965	Emily Bronswick		2023	$1,500.00
Town and Gown in the Cornbelt: The Impact of the Ethnic and Evangelical Student Counterculture in Sioux County, Iowa	Justin Vos		2022	$1,000.00
Lonely Sentinel: A History of Fort Madison, 1808–1813	Patrick J. Jung	Milwaukee, WI	2015	$1,000.00
Pipelines, Private Property, and Populism: Midwestern Landowners and the Opposition to Oil Infrastructure in the 1970s	Michael Brickey		2022	$1,000.00
Media and the Work of Rural Agricultural Women of the Great Plains in WWII	Emily Easton		2023	$1,500.00
The Professor and his Kingdom: George Herron's Iowa	Jeffrey A. Johnson		2023	$1,500.00
Milk Wars: The Dairy Farmer and the American Dream	Kenneth O'Reilly		2022	$1,000.00
Iowans in the Cold War	Kevin Y. Kim	Seattle, WA	2018	$1,000.00
Iowa's Embrace and Resistance to Nationalized Retail Commerce Through Mail Order Catalogs, 1897-1914	Sarah Johnson		2023	$1,500.00
Science on the Prairie: Thomas H. MacBride, Bohumil Shimek and the Formation of American Science	Karen Wellner		2022	$1,000.00
Religious Liberty without RFRA in Iowa	Paul Baumgardner and Brian K. Miller	Ewing, NJ & Arlington, VA	2018	$1,000.00
Decolonizing Seeds to Revitalize Lifeways: Regeneration Through Tallgrass Prairie and Bison, Heirloom Seeds, and Food Sovereignty	Daniel R. Maher		2023	$1,500.00
The Making of a Midwestern Catholicism: Transatlantic Identities, Ethnicity, and Catholic Culture in Iowa City, 1840–1940	Michael J. Pfeifer	Sunnyside, NY	2015	$1,000.00
Deep Red Roots: Religion, Ethnicity and the Origins of Sioux County, Iowa’s Conservative Subculture	Andrew Klumpp	Dallas, TX	2018	$1,000.00
Mormon Movements in Early Iowa	T. Ashton Reynolds		2023	$1,500.00
Czechs in Iowa: History, Places, and Opportunities for Further Research	Martin Nekola		2022	$1,000.00
Ferdinand Winslow’s Civil War: Transnational Ties and Complementary Identity	Anders B. Rasmussen	Denmark	2015	$1,000.00